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290 - Manuscript BARTHOU (Louis) Autograph manuscript [Report on t…
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Manuscript BARTHOU (Louis) Autograph manuscript [Report on the Prizes for Virtue], 1930, signed ‘Louis Barthou’. Barthou, in his capacity as Director of the Academy, delivered the traditional report on the Prizes for Virtue awarded by the Academy in 1930, highlighting deserving individuals and paying tribute to several charitable organisations, concluding: ‘The sense of what is good is by no means the least common thing in France. Devotion knows no unemployment here. Virtue is not a hollow word here. Whether it looks inwards or compares itself with others, such a country has nothing to fear for its future. ”. 19 pages in-4 mounted on tabs, in blue ink on blue paper, containing numerous crossings-out, corrections and additions. 1/2 brown chagrin signed M.-P. TRÉMOIS, with a gilt head. Report to the Académie française on the Prizes for Virtue. This speech was delivered on 4 December 1930. The manuscript is inscribed at the top: ‘ To ‘La Loriotte’, who might play a tune of Virtue on the Tree of Goodness, her affectionately devoted friend Louis Barthou, 9 December 1930”. This is probably Mrs Lorette Guilliotte, mentioned in the report, aged 82: ‘A widow since 1913, after a life that was never a happy one, she has had to shoulder the heaviest burdens: a daughter, a granddaughter and a grandson, all in poor health, and four great-grandchildren, the eldest of whom is seven years old. To meet the needs of these dependants, for whom she is almost the sole provider, Mrs Guilliotte cares for infants and children aged between three and eleven.”
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